Is it possible to use systems ffmpeg?

All linux distros ship with ffmpeg. Many of them don't use the bundled ffmpeg of chromium and link directly to the system ffmpeg which works fine. Is it possible to have vivaldi use the systems ffmpeg? How can you build libffmpeg.so out of ffmpeg sources (not using chromium bundled)?

It would be really great if vivaldi works out of the box. The current situation is not very good. E.g. (the interview of Jon von Tetzchner) can't be played using the bundled libffmpeg.so. I had to use chromium to play the video. That really sucks.

I'm using mageia linux.
The suggested solutions only provide the codecs bundled to chromium. I guess that is the reason they are called chromium-bundled.

There are good reasons not to use bundled libraries in a distribution. If I use one of theses solutions, I don't get regular security updates for the library.

In mageia they remove the whole directory "third_party" and only use the system libraries (build/linux/unbundle/replace_gn_files.py --system-libraries). So in this build of chromium I can't get any libffmpeg.so. If libffmpeg.so can be built with chromium + original ffmpeg sources, it is possible to add a package for that, since this is updated on every chromium/ffmpeg update.

Maybe it would be possible to add distribution specific builds, so you can use the system libraries. Maybe you can provide a precompiled gui with the chromium sources, so the distros can do the linking to their system libraries.

@lamarca I meant to use the changes to the normal apt packaging mentioned in that post (by me), which mean adding a stanza to /etc/apt/sources.list and a preference file to /etc/apt/preferences.d.

These make updating the chromium ffmpeg package the same as updating any other package, with all the normal updating and conflict/dependency checking. I added that post as a replacement for using any script that copies shared libraries to system directories bypassing the package management system.

Package management is an essential part of a linux distribution and one should think carefully before bypassing it.

I keep a cron job to run apt-get update every night, to find the latest packages, but always upgrade packages manually so I can test right away and revert if there's a problem, a lesson learned the very hard way after an automatic upgrade of the nvidia graphics drivers :(

Package management is an essential part of a linux distribution and one should think carefully before bypassing it.

Great number of users don't use CLI, hence some procedures use shell script. Some of them are in the Vivaldi Help Pages.
Personally, I am a big fan of command line, and the more I use the more I learn.